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LODGE · Local Democratic Governance towards Equality: Implementation of Gender+ Equality Policies in times of Anti-Gender and Democratic Backsliding

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Период: 2023-09-01 → 2025-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 181 153 €
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Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Local Democratic Governance towards Equality: Implementation of Gender+ Equality Policies in times of Anti-Gender and Democratic Backsliding

The project Local Democratic Governance towards Equality (LODGE): Implementation of Gender+ Equality Policies in Times of Anti-Gender and Democratic Backsliding investigated how local governments develop and implement gender+ equality policies in a political climate increasingly marked by opposition to gender equality and democratic backsliding. LODGE, thus, addresses a pressing challenge facing contemporary European societies: the erosion of democratic inclusion and equality commitments in the face of resurgent anti-gender and far-right forces. Across Europe, these actors increasingly challenge gender equality and anti-discrimination institutional commitments, often undermining equality policies through overt contestation and the subtle dismantling of policy implementation mechanisms and accountability frameworks. While most research focuses on national or EU levels, LODGE brings local governments to the forefront, emphasizing their role in shaping and implementing equality policies, advancing EU egalitarian objectives, and fostering democratic innovation. LODGE pursued two core research objectives: first, to examine how gender+ equality and democratic inclusion are addressed in the strategies of local governments; and second, to investigate the practical challenges and opportunities involved in implementing these policies. Grounded in political science, gender studies, and public policy—core social sciences and humanities areas—LODGE combines policy analysis with a qualitative fieldwork-based approach, conducted closely with technical staff from local institutions. The project's expected impacts are multi-dimensional. Scientifically, LODGE advances academic debates on the relationship between gender equality and (de)democratization processes and the capacity of institutions to uphold egalitarian commitments in increasingly polarized political environments. It introduces innovative conceptual tools—such as feminist democratic innovations—and provides an empirical foundation for understanding equality policymaking and institutional resilience amid challenges to gender and anti-discrimination frameworks. At the societal and policy level, LODGE supports institutional actors by offering evidence-based strategies to safeguard and enhance equality measures. More broadly, LODGE contributes to the EU’s strategic objectives of advancing gender equality, democratic resilience, and inclusive governance.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

LODGE studies local responses to one of the crucial challenges of contemporary European societies: preserving mechanisms designed to protect gender equality and democratic inclusion in an increasingly polarized climate. The project examines localism, a form of governance that privileges local institutions as key sites of civic engagement and citizen control over public services. Specifically, LODGE tests the scholarly agreement that localism is a particularly fertile terrain for the design and implementation of gender+ equality and democratic inclusion policies, because of the capacity of local administrations to reorganize political priorities and redistribute power and resources more equitably. The project proposes an empirical study to measure the implementation of the legislative agenda of Barcelona and Madrid city councils during 2015-2019, two local governments in Spain that professed localism and designed pioneering feminist politics. The project will deliver: 1) an analysis of gender+ equality and democratic inclusion policies that are distinctive of localist agendas; and 2) an analysis of the obstacles and opportunities to implement such policies, with a specific focus on the discursive negotiation of policy meanings, and the impact of key actors and organizational structures in the success of policy implementation. LODGE will conduct content and frame analysis of policy documents, in-depth interviews with municipal technical personnel, participant observation in technical meetings, two workshops with policy experts, and will produce a technical report. The project will contribute to develop the increasingly relevant concept of localism from a gender+ equality perspective, advance the field of implementation studies of gender equality policies, empirically document experiences to engender spaces of democratic participation, bridge the gap between non-academic stakeholders and academic scholars, and contribute to policy-making with policy recommendations.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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